Russian Social Media Network Vkontakte to Introduce NFT Support
Russia’s largest social media network, Vkontakte, has announced it’s going to introduce support for blockchain and NFTs. The crypto technologies will be incorporated into the platform’s scheme for monetization of user content and copyright protection. Vkontakte to Facilitate Use of Non-Fungible Tokens The leading Russian social media platform, Vkontakte, intends to utilize blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the company’s Technical Director Alexander Tobol unveiled in a recent interview with Vesti. Both will become part of....
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In a year with rising crypto prices, online chatter devoted to cryptocurrencies has increased significantly. Research carried out on Russian social media has identified the most talked about coins and it’s not just bitcoin on people’s minds.
Experts List Most Mentioned Cryptos on Russian Social Media
Brand Analytics, a company specializing in media monitoring in the CIS area, has recently published a report ranking the most popular cryptocurrencies, according to the frequency of their appearance in Russian-language conversations on social media. To assess interest....
Pavel Durov, former CEO of Russia’s social networking site VKontakte, has openly decried the treatment of cryptocurrencies by the country’s authorities. Durov was fired from his position on 21 April, placing the network “under the ‘full control’ of Kremlin insiders,” The Moscow Times reported. The implications behind the dismissal would appear to have incensed Durov, who subsequently spoke to BTC Russia about national currencies allowing governments to “cause the most pain to the poor and at the same time create the most inconspicuous taxation, constantly devaluing monthly salaries”. His....
Voice will be the first Russian-language social media platform built on top of a blockchain. With cyber.Fund using Steemit as a template, Voice is intended to cater to the uniqueness of the Russian people, as contributions to the Steemit website are primarily in English, although there are posts in a few other languages. In an official release by Bitcoin Conference Russia, cyber.Fund stated that they looked to create a decentralized social network for authors, bloggers and journalists to be able to publish their work, leveraging the immutability of the blockchain to circumvent censorship.....
BlockTrail homepage. One of Russia's newly minted technology tycoons has unveiled his first foray into the bitcoin world, a bitcoin blockchain visualiser called BlockTrail, that opened for public access today. Tech magnate Lev Leviev is co-founder of VKontakte, Russia's largest social network, which has 266 million user accounts and more active daily users than Facebook in the country. He sold his stake in VKontakte last year in a deal that, together with larger chunk of equity from another investor, was valued at more than $1bn. With the proceeds of the sale in hand, Leviev turned his....